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The Centre on Saturday agreed in principle to give the entire 12.5 acres of Indu Mills land in Mumbai’s Dadar area to the Maharashtra Government to build a memorial for BR Ambedkar.
The defunct Indu Mills is part of the State-owned National Textiles Corporation (NTC) under the Ministry of Textiles and is located next to Chaityabhoomi at Dadar, where Ambedkar was cremated on December 6, 1956. Chaityabhoomi is a national monument and is a place of pilgrimage for the followers of Ambedkar.
An assurance for the allotment of land was given by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to an all-party delegation from Maharashtra led by Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan. Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar was also part of the delegation.
A committee of concerned Secretaries will be formed soon to decide on the modalities, Chavan and Union Textiles Minister Anand Sharma told reporters after the meeting.
Both Houses of Maharashtra Legislature had recently adopted a unanimous resolution asking the Centre to hand over the entire 12.5 acre Indu Mills land to the State Government for construction of a memorial of the architect of the Constitution.
The resolution came after the Centre offered handing over four acres of land for the memorial. The resolution said the Centre should hand over the entire land, which in the first place belonged to the State Government, at no cost and the State would take responsibility of building a memorial.
The land is to be used to build the memorial, and a cultural and an educational centre. The State Government would bear the cost of the memorial’s construction.
The defunct Indu Mills is part of the State-owned National Textiles Corporation (NTC) under the Ministry of Textiles and is located next to Chaityabhoomi at Dadar, where Ambedkar was cremated on December 6, 1956. Chaityabhoomi is a national monument and is a place of pilgrimage for the followers of Ambedkar.
An assurance for the allotment of land was given by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to an all-party delegation from Maharashtra led by Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan. Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar was also part of the delegation.
A committee of concerned Secretaries will be formed soon to decide on the modalities, Chavan and Union Textiles Minister Anand Sharma told reporters after the meeting.
Both Houses of Maharashtra Legislature had recently adopted a unanimous resolution asking the Centre to hand over the entire 12.5 acre Indu Mills land to the State Government for construction of a memorial of the architect of the Constitution.
The resolution came after the Centre offered handing over four acres of land for the memorial. The resolution said the Centre should hand over the entire land, which in the first place belonged to the State Government, at no cost and the State would take responsibility of building a memorial.
The land is to be used to build the memorial, and a cultural and an educational centre. The State Government would bear the cost of the memorial’s construction.
